In 1907, James Murray Spangler, a janitor from Canton, Ohio, invented the first practical, portable vacuum cleaner. Unable to produce the design himself due to lack of funding, he sold the patent in 1908 to William Henry Hoover who had Spangler’s machine...

R2D2 used to be a barn vacuum before he was upgraded to a droid who eventually helped save the Galactic Federation from the Evil Empire. Without vacuum cleaner technology, they would have been doomed! True story....